Ensuring survival of the grizzly in the Northern Rockies is a major goal of Alliance for the Wild Rockies. Key to AWR's grizzly campaign are the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act and the Conservation Biology Alternative (CBA) to the government's grizzly reintroduction proposal for the Salmon-Selway Ecosystem.

As many as 100,000 grizzlies once roamed the lower 48 states, but the arrival of European settlers, habitat destruction, extensive shooting, poisoning, and trapping campaigns reduced the grizzly populations to 1% of their former range. Less than 800 grizzlies exist today in the American Northern Rockies... a brief history of the Grizzly